Microsoft click-baits users with useless ‘How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge’ instruction doc

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click-baits users with useless ‘How to Uninstall

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Edge’ instruction doc

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search engine (via

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) presents a clickbait result when you ask how to uninstall

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Edge. While it shows a video with instructions and features the question, “Why can’t I uninstall

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Edge?” the top article is titled “How to Uninstall

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Edge,” with the URL indicating it’s an official

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page. However, clicking the link directs you to the

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Edge homepage, which highlights everything positive about the browser and doesn’t answer your initial query.

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Chrome is still the leading browser, with StatCounter reporting a 67.08% market share. Safari is at 17.95%, but it’s only available on Apple devices.

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Edge is in third place, with a distant 5.2% market share despite being bundled with

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Windows.

This is unfortunate, especially as

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Edge is a good alternative to Chrome. Both are Chromium-based browsers, so there’s little difference in performance, and it has a few features that could give Chrome a run for its money. For example, it has a RAM limiter, which stops it from hogging your PC’s memory, while it also has a popup feature that highlights extensions that make it run slower.

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Since we live in a free society, you can still download and install Chrome on your PC using

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Edge. But if you do this, you’re bound to encounter several popups encouraging you to stick with the built-in browser on your Windows PC.

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may even ask you why you’re ditching Edge for Chrome.

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also created a page that looks like

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when you search for it on

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, which could fool non-tech-savvy users who want to use Alphabet’s search engine, although it has since taken this down.

Moves like this suggest that

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is desperate to capture market share from Alphabet, especially as its products—namely

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Search,

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Workspace, and

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Chrome—dominate their specific industries.

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is also trying hard to make users switch to Windows 11, especially with the coming demise of Windows 10 in October 2025. Many are still resistant, though, especially with its TPM 2.0 requirement that disqualifies many PC hardware that is otherwise capable of running the operating system.

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